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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

What's good for shopping is good for Amazon.

VBeat has an interview with Thomas Kelly, enterprise architect for cloud services at Best Buy:

(November 30, 2011) - Today, Best Buy runs a hybrid cloud with best-of-breed applications and
IT governance in place. It also leverages the entire suite of Amazon
data products, and even encourages programmers to experiment with new
technologies

“Anything without governance becomes a failure potential,” Kelly said.
Best Buy manages enormous amounts of data, undertakes hundreds of new IT
projects each year and is responsible for continuous lifecycle
management, which makes governance a must, he said.

Amazon is essentially a "shopping cloud" with Kindle Fire as a front end. Soon, no matter where you shop, the chances are your order will be executed by Amazon's servers.